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Two policemen were killed and two civilians were injured in a roadside blast in Mogadishu on Wednesday, witnesses said. Police cordoned off the area but a vehicle damaged by an explosion could be seen, witnesses said. Police did not immediately Read More …
In a video posted widely in early June, a man sits on the ground with blood on his face and one leg splayed to the side. “Where am I?” he asks in Libyan Arabic, and the man holding the camera Read More …
The horrific 7/7 bombings were one of the worst terror attacks ever to hit London – with fifty-two innocent people killed in a series of coordinated explosions by four suicide bombers on July 7, 2005. A group of three suicide Read More …
As COVID-19 continues to disrupt the world’s health systems, economies and local communities, the UN Secretary-General on Monday highlighted how the pandemic has laid bare vulnerabilities to “new and emerging forms of terrorism”, such as cyberattacks, bioterrorism and the misuse Read More …
The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) at the weekend said troops clashed 17 times with insurgents in the North-east in the month of June. The clashes resulted in the death of 75 insurgents and an army officer while 35 captives were liberated. Read More …
HaD is avowedly loyal to Al-Qaeda and its leadership is dominated by non-Syrian Al-Qaeda veterans. Hurras al-Din (HaD), Arabic for “Guardians of Religion”, are hardcore Al-Qaeda elements who broke away from Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the strongest insurgent group in Read More …
At least three policemen were killed and three others were wounded in a roadside mine blast in the Kohistan district of Herat on the Herat-Islam Qala highway on Saturday, local officials said. The incident happened around 100 km away from Read More …
he NATO called on the Taliban group to decrease violence as the country is going towards an intra-Afghan peace dialogue. Stefano Pontecorvo, the NATO Senior Civilian Representative to Afghanistan in a video message published on his twitter account has said Read More …
A CRPF personnel was injured in a low-intensity improvised explosive device (IED) blast in Pulwama district of south Kashmir on Sunday, police said. State forces also detected and defused another IED in the district later, a police official said. The Read More …
At least five people were killed and more than eight others wounded when a government security checkpoint was bombed in Baidoa, Somalia’s administrative capital of Southwest State, on Saturday, witnesses and security officials said. Officials in Baidoa, about 250 kilometers Read More …
An explosion ripped through a vehicle of the Afghan National Police (ANP) forces in Kabul city earlier today, the security sources said. According to the officials in Kabul Police Headquarters, a magnetic bomb planted in a police vehicle went off Read More …
One of the major tactical developments during the war against ISIS in Syria and Iraq has been the deployment of hobbyist and even homemade remote controlled aircraft—often referred to as “drones”—armed with small explosive charges. During the Battle of Mosul Read More …
The EU Terrorism Situation and Trend 2020 report refers to the killing of Lyra McKee in April 2019 and the discovery of a bomb last September. The law enforcement agency said the UK reported ‘55 security-related incidents by Dissident Republican Read More …
Four gunmen attacked the Pakistani stock exchange in Karachi, killing at least two people and wounding others before police shot them dead. The assailants launched a grenade attack at the main gate to the building and opened fire but police Read More …
At least six civilians, including women and children, were killed in a roadside mine blast in southern Helmand province on Sunday afternoon, local officials said on Monday. The incident took place in Washir district after a civilian vehicle struck a Read More …
Russia has denied reports that it offered Taliban-linked militants bounties to kill US troops in Afghanistan. Citing US officials, The New York Times, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal reported that a Russian military intelligence unit offered the alleged bounties Read More …
Two employees of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) were killed in an IED explosion that targeted their vehicle in Kabul this morning, the commission confirmed. One of the victims was a woman who was serving as a legal Read More …
A man who incited a German terror cell to commit mass murder with a car, explosives and a meat cleaver has been given a life sentence. Fatah Abdullah tried to learn how to make a pressure cooker “bomb” to aid Read More …
Sayed Mukhtar 13, an Afghan teenager who was trained by the Taliban for a suicide attack, has surrendered to the Afghan security forces in Kunduz province, the Ministry of Interior said on Thursday. The teenager claimed that he spent five Read More …
Cameroonian police are on high alert for dangerous weapons after two improvised devices exploded in the capital, Yaounde, a senior police officer said on Wednesday. Didier Ngah, police commissioner, said security has been enhanced and counter-terror measures have been put Read More …